Guide card or partition for vertical files.



I PATENTED MAY 5, 1908.

L. SENGE. I GUIDE CARD OR PARTITION FOR VERTICAL FILES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22.1907.

LIBORIU S SENGE; OF CRESCENT SPRINGS, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNORTO 'GLOBE-WEBNICKE COMPANY,. OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

GUIDE CARD 0R PARTITION FOR VERTICAL FILES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

'Eatented May 5, 1908.

Application filed June 22, 1907. Serial No. 380,823.

citizen of the United States, residing at Cres-.

cent Sprin s, in thecounty of Kenton and State of new and useful Improvements in Guide Cards or Partitions for Vertical Files, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification.

I My invention relates to indexes or guide cards for the lar er sizes of vertical files, the purpose of-whicli is to separateoneset or group of cards or pa ers from another in the. same receptacle, an it has for its object the provision of a horizontally shiftable index older upon the top of the guide card to enable the index holders to be shifted at the pleasure of the owner, to any position that he may desire.

The novelty of my invention will be hereinafter more fully set forth and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawin Figure 1 is an elevation of one of the uide cards with its shiitable index holder. ig. 2 is a broken upper portion of one of said guide cards to represent a modification in the construction. Fi 3 is an elevation of one of the index holders before it is folded upon itself to receive the index slip. Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional elevation on the dotted line a:x 0 Fig. 1 looking to the left.

fhe same numerals of reference are used to indicate identical parts in all the figures.

in Fig. 1, is the guide card represented as entucky, have invented certain.

made of sheet metal with its edges turned over and pressed to stiffen it.

in Fig. 3, 2 represents the index holder of sheet metal with slots 3 in it, which is folded upon itself to receive the sli 4 containing the indexing'matter, and wit a lower projection 5 which is turned up and fits under the down turned edge or flange 6 at the top of the uide card 1 so as to be slidable longitudina y thereon.

At the lower end of the guide card there ma be a tang or projection 7 with a erforation 8 throughit for the usual r0 that goesthreugh such cards, or this may be Omitted. I

In Fig. 2 the guide card 9 is of some flexible material such as paper or aste board with a metal piece 10 clampe or riveted upon its upper ed e to receive and guide the shdable index holder 2.

By means of this construction the possessorof a vertical file may arrange his index olders in any'manner most convenient to Haying thus fully described my invention, I claim: I

A guide card provided on its upper edge with a retaining runway for an index holder, a slidable index holder interlocked with said retainin' runway in such manner that said index. ho der may be moved along the edge of said guide card and be retained thereon by said runway, substantiall as described.

. LIB RIUS SENGE.

Witnesses:

A. S. Porn, i EDWARD Pnox. 

